WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19,2002
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 29
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Anthony Schwager, of Anthony's Honey, helps out a customer at the Farmers Market on 10th and Vermont. Anthony's has a diverse supply of honey products, from Bee's Wax, candy, honey sticks, cut-comb honey and more.
Try something different, go to the farmers market
Todd Smith Kansan staff writer
Wendy Dalquest uses goat milk to make an all natural soap.
At the Lawrence Farmers Market customers can buy that goat soap they just can't do without or try something new like honey beef jerky.
The market, established 28 years ago, is the oldest continuous market in Kansas.
Dalquest, owner of Red Ribbon Acres, 1004 E. 1600 Road, southeast of Lawrence, said she was known as the Goat Lady.
Dalquest displays her wares with Sue Cranston, another goat farmer, who sells ice cream and five kinds of cheese made from goat milk. She said they are a good combination.
Across the lot of the market, Terri Schwager, part owner of Anthony's Honey Products, said the business sold many products made with honey. One of its most popular products was honey beef jerky.
"Wendy makes the inedible part and I make the edible part." Cranston said.
Her son Anthony, owner of the business, is a Lawrence High School sophomore who suffers from epilepsy. The family helps sell his products because of his special needs.
His father, Tony Schwager, said that the beehive business would help to supplement Anthony's income. It costs about $100 for each hive.
Terri Schwager said they had 24 beehives.
"My goal for him is to have a hundred by the time he turns 18," she said. "If you manage your bees you can double each year."
During the week the crowds and the number of vendors can be small, but Mark Jones, Lawrence Farmers Market manager, said Saturdays can get busy.
Saturday mornings there are 65 vendors and during the week there are about 10 to 12, he said.
The market is in the parking lot in the 1000 block of Vermont Street. It begins the second Saturday in May and runs through the second Saturday in November . It is open from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.every Tuesday and Thursday and from 6:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.every Saturday.
Mary Joe Mensie, president of the vendors association, said each vendor paid a $25 advertising fee whether they were there one day or all year. A vendor can pay $100 for the full season or pay per day, which is $2 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and $10 on Saturdays.
He said one can find herbs, pies and cakes at the market and later in the year pumpkins, watermelons and cantaloupes are sold.
"Most everything is sold in season," Iones said. "That is how you keep it local."
Contact Smith at tsmith@kansan.com. This story was edited by Mandy Miller.
He said on Saturdays the market could attract more than a thousand people.
Vendors have different fees they pay for displaying their wares.
Jones said everything was locally-owned and produced.
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